Lately I have been constantly hearing from my friends about the quarter-life crisis, which is logical. In two weeks I'm 25, and most of my surroundings are my peers. And many of us were affected by this to one degree or another. I’ll say right away that at university, within the framework of academic psychology, we did not consider the crisis 25 at all. But in Erikson’s theory, this correlates with the stage of early adulthood (from 21 to 35) and + - coincides with content. During this time, it is necessary to deal with three areas.🌚 My favorite work.🌚 Creating a family (by the way, today you can call everything that you yourself consider family) a family.🌚 And for dessert, your place in society. In general, in an amicable way Having emerged from the teenage crisis, we should have formed ideas about what we want from life (including in these areas). Multiply them by youthful maximalism, then by your expectations and also by the expectations of your parents, of course. Also add stories about child prodigies, all sorts of books and movies, and, of course, nowhere without successful success. The result is some kind of wild picture that has very little to do with reality. And the expectation is that by 25 you will definitely achieve this. And this is complete nonsense. The situation is aggravated by friends and acquaintances who are starting to get married in droves. And it seems that you are already significantly late. Sit at your boring job, and life goes on without you. In Tik Tok, children earn normal money, and you have a 5/2 schedule and endless darkness. And in general, you yourself are still a child, although according to your passport you are an adult. And this is the norm. The intensity of the experience may vary. Some people simply cannot bear it, while others do not notice this crisis at all. I think, in many ways, this is determined by our contact with ourselves, the ability to live our own lives and play by our own rules. It's trivial to know what we want. This, too, must be learned, by the way. Any crisis is a very miserable state. Painful. What is already obsolete is destroyed. New things are revealed. A crisis is a moment of vulnerability, but at the same time of great creativity. The moment of creating your new life. You come out of it clean of impurities and without ballast. And, of course, this has its own price. By paying it, you become yourself.